{"id":104,"date":"2017-03-02T15:04:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T20:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenantmagic.net\/wordpress\/?p=104"},"modified":"2017-03-02T15:04:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T20:04:14","slug":"ignore-at-your-own-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tenantmagic.net\/tm-blog\/ignore-at-your-own-peril\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignore at Your Own Peril"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a previous post I wrote about the 4 critical steps you need to take when considering rental applicants. They are –<\/p>\n

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  1. Pre-screen your tenants by clearly communicating your residency standards<\/li>\n
  2. Require complete applications, have each co-applicant complete their own individual application and collect an application fee<\/li>\n
  3. Conduct a comprehensive background screening for every applicant and co-applicant 18 years or older that includes credit, criminal and eviction results<\/li>\n
  4. Make sure the applicant\u2019s ID is properly verified. Is the applicant who they say they are?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    However, going through all the effort to properly screen an applicant is useless if you don\u2019t pay attention to the results.<\/p>\n

    Here is a story from Tina who didn\u2019t pay attentions to the screening report results.<\/p>\n

    “This new applicant was a nice guy and has a sweet dog, but I am never going to forgo the Tenant Magic approval again after what happened with my last tenant. I had her complete the application and go through the screening program, the recommendation was to refuse the applicant, and boy do I wish I had listened.\u00a0 What a worthless nightmare she turned out to be.\u00a0 Thanks for your help.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see what he does.”<\/p>\n

    This a great example of being able to learn a valuable lesson from the (easily avoidable) mistake of someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In a previous post I wrote about the 4 critical steps you need to take when considering rental applicants. They are – Pre-screen your tenants by clearly communicating your residency standards Require complete applications, have each co-applicant complete their own individual application and collect an application fee Conduct a comprehensive background screening for every applicant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenantmagic.net\/tm-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenantmagic.net\/tm-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenantmagic.net\/tm-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenantmagic.net\/tm-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenantmagic.net\/tm-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenantmagic.net\/tm-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenantmagic.net\/tm-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenantmagic.net\/tm-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenantmagic.net\/tm-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenantmagic.net\/tm-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}